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> [The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/the-national-security-agency-has-broken-privacy-rules-or-overstepped/)

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> [Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/scores-of-armed-antigovernment-groups-some-of-them-far-more-radical/)

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> [The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/the-government-of-sudan-employing-a-back-channel-direct-from-its/)

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## More by Barton Gellman

> [On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/on-march-12-2004-acting-attorney-general-james-b-comey-and-the/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/for-political-and-bureaucratic-reasons-governments-at-all-levels-are/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/searches-of-al-qaeda-sites-in-afghanistan-undertaken-since-american/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/i-don-t-think-cheney-started-off-in-2000-with-a-burning-desire-to/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/as-militias-go-the-ohio-defense-force-is-on-the-moderate-side/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/i-doubt-there-s-any-government-in-the-world-that-guides-itself/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/u-s-intelligence-services-routinely-use-collection-methods-against/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/snowden-is-an-orderly-thinker-with-an-engineer-s-approach-to-problem/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/experts-said-public-companies-worry-about-the-loss-of-customer/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/the-united-states-a-signatory-to-the-chemical-weapons-convention/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/as-trotsky-didn-t-exactly-say-you-may-not-be-interested-in-electronic/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/you-don-t-need-to-be-a-spook-to-care-about-encryption-if-you-travel/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/i-learned-the-technology-and-tradecraft-of-electronic-security-in/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [Nothing is absolute in security.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/nothing-is-absolute-in-security/)

[Barton Gellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barton-gellman/)

> [Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barton-gellman/early-in-1986-the-world-health-organization-in-geneva-still-regarded/)

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